The film contains
some terrific underwater sequences directed by Ricou Browning. When
a fissure in the Earth's crust causes huge tidal waves a super-sub and
its crew are despatched to place seismographic warning sensors in critical
areas along the fault line. Various hazards encountered on their travels
include the almost obligatory underwater sea monster . . .

Two scientists
invent a machine that can reverse the ageing process. Its secret is
eagerly sought after by both U.N.C.L.E. and THRUSH.
The film gives an interesting, if short, glimpse into the workings of
THRUSH Central which seems to operate on much the same lines as U.N.C.L.E.
headquarters.Also see U.N.C.L.E Films and TV

In his secret underground H.Q. a mad scientist by the name of Diabolicus
has been 'collecting' uranium to produce a radioactive gold isotope
which will help him achieve his aim of world domination. His plans are
pin-falled by yet another in the seemingly endless collection of wrestling
heroes, Superago. The scientist makes his escape in a rocket and heads
towards outer space, only to be blown up when a computer malfunctions.
Never did trust those things - why is this keyboard smoking . . .

A museum curator - who happens to keep his mummified mother's body at
home (who doesn't?) - discovers the secret of bringing the legendary
statue of Golem to life. The creation is controlled telepathically by
the curator and its powers seem limitless. Golem's capabilities are
put to the test when it is sent to destroy London Bridge after which
the authorities decide that they've had enough and nuke the thing. Bad
luck for the curator who is atomised (who's going to look after mummy?)
but not for Golem, who is set free from the mind control and walks into
the sea.

A scientist
hidden away on an Irish island happily beavers away creating tentacled
silicates which liquefy and digest bone and tissue. The creatures are
eliminated but the film ends with a visit to a Japanese satellite program
where the scientist's work is being duplicated. A technician walks down
a corridor, hears a strange noise and investigates before screaming.

A Lystrian
criminal comes to Earth to seek refuge pursued by alien police. He manages
to get run over and ends up in hospital which is then enclosed in a
force field by the pursuers. The temperature starts to rise and the
air is slowly consumed . . .

Another would-be, but over-the-top, Bond-type film with girls and gadgets,
not the least of which is the ability to become invisible. A scientist
working with spores found on a meteorite is kidnapped by the Russians
and a super-agent is sent to rescue him. The spores are particularly
nasty things which turn human flesh into a kind of fungus and it is
this which eventually accounts for the poor scientist. The agent succeeds
in thwarting Russian plans to infect American crops with the spores.

Yep, another Mexican masked wrestler - they must have a farm somewhere
to breed them. This time it is the blue-masked Blue Demon who comes
up against spider-like alien invaders which can change their appearance
temporarily to mimic humans. Almost obligatory in these is the big fight
scene where Blue Demon battles an opponent called Frankenstein (Leon).
Two foxy ladies provide the glamour, one being human and the other an
alien spider-being.

Another super-spy with more sexy gadgetry and girls. This one is trying
to foil a group of spies attempting to have it away with the 'Cyclops'
disintegrator ray. Worth watching for the Joan and Pat content if you're
that way inclined.

The second film in the Bond look-alike Matt Helm series has him, his
sexy assistant and another gorgeous girl trying to trace her kidnapped
scientist father. A potential world ruler has plans to use the scientist's
'helio-ray' to destroy Washington D.C.
Also see Bond and Super-Spies

A group of people travel to a remote island to hear the reading of a
dead scientist's will. One of the conditions is that should any of the
group die, the others will split his / her share. Apparently the scientist
was subjected to some disfigurement at some stage before his death and
to extract revenge he has left a robot behind programmed to kill his
tormentors. One of the group is killed, another changes the robot's
programming to kill the rest and it all ends when the murdering mechanical
man is gunned down with a laser pistol found in the laboratory.

A criminal
mastermind and megalomaniac styling himself on his namesake Alexander
(the Great) makes plans to commit some of the world's biggest crimes
in order to enlarge his industrial 'empire'. The signature theme of
each crime is the breaking of one of the Ten Commandments. When he steals
a top secret chemical from a U.S. military establishment Solo and Kuryakin
are sent after him, to stop him achieving his ambitions of power, enlisting
the help of his ex-wife Tracey in order to do so.
Also see U.N.C.L.E Films and TV

In part, a satire on old-fashioned gangster movies. In hiding from THRUSH
agents Napoleon Solo takes refuge under a young lady's bed and is discovered
there by her grandmother. Unfortunately for Solo it is a Mafia family
and they try to force him into marrying the girl. He escapes, but is
hotly pursued by a motley collection of stereotype Italian gangsters.Also see U.N.C.L.E Films and TV

Dr.
CoppeliusBased on the ballet by Delibes and NuitterChildhood ProductionsTed Kneeland

In this children's film Dr. Coppelius creates a beautiful dancing robot
girl with which one of the village youths becomes enamoured. The youth
is kidnapped by the doctor who tries to transplant the boy's spirit
into the robot to bring it to life. The boy's human girlfriend disguises
herself as the robot doll and frees him, leaving the doctor to contemplate
his mechanical mistress. Deciding she was not all he had intended, he
opts for the charms of a local busty barmaid instead.

The
End Of August At The Hotel Ozone
(Konec Srpna V Hotelu Ozon)Studio BarrandovJan Schmidt

The film is set fifteen years after some atomic holocaust and focuses
on a group of women survivors who have degenerated into savages. They
survive by scavenging and killing, even to the point of murdering the
aged proprietor of the deserted hotel in the title in order to steal
his gramophone. A very 'arty' film in presentation with electronic music
by Jan Klusak.

A companion film to the equally unlikely-named 'Billy The Kid vs Dracula'.
A descendant of the original Baron Frankenstein has settled in Mexico.
The family blood runs strong in her veins as she soon starts experimenting
on kidnapped children. Jesse James discovers this and tries to stop
her but comes up against a robot-like being which the girl has created
from a wounded friend of Jesse's.

Martians, led by a character called Argos, land on Earth and demand
that nuclear testing be stopped. They press home their argument by disintegrating
a few hombres using their 'Astral eye'. Having made themselves popular
with the locals they make use of their special belts to become invisible.
Some Earthlings are kidnapped for experimentation and Santo dives in
to save them, blowing up the Martians and their space ship in the process.
Positively crawling with wrestlers this film, what with the silver-masked
'Hulk', Frankenstein and even a couple of female Martian wrestling babes
for the fellas.

A children's sci-fi picture in which the heroes are a young scientist
and a professor's assistant who are in love. The professor for whom
the assistant works has constructed a spaceship and it is this which
takes the lovers Daniel and Silvia, together with a boxer and his manager
(why?) to the planet of eternal night in the galaxy of Rumania. The
alien inhabitants are underground dwellers who shun the planet's blinding
surface light and who are ruled by a madman whose intention is to destroy
the Earth with a 'death ray' of some sort. This and its follow-up film
were released in 1966.

Set in the Paris exhibition of 1889, an airship constructed by Professor
Findejs is stolen by five children and the film tells of their trip
across Europe, ending with their landing on a remote island where they
have some Jules Verne-type adventures.

Voyage
To The Planet Of Prehistoric Women
(The Gill Women Of Venus)AIP-TV
/ FilmgroupPeter Bogdanovich and Pavel Klushantsev

This is
essentially the 1962 film 'Planet Of Storms' with new footage attached.
Astronauts land on Venus and have the misfortune to annoy the native
Gill Women by destroying the creature that they worship.

A busty
costumed heroine, Batwoman, and her bopping band of Batgirls try to
get hold of an atom bomb made from a hearing aid by a mad scientist
before it falls into the hands of super-villain Rat Fink.

A secret
organisation provides a service for the elderly rich who can afford
it - death, followed by reincarnation in a younger body. They run into
trouble when people start to wonder where the corpses needed are coming
from.

The second
of five 'Fu Manchu films, loosely comes under the umbrella of sci-fi.
The evil oriental master criminal and his underlings kidnap daughters
of famous scientists and spirit them away to his headquarters on a remote
island.

He uses them to blackmail their fathers into helping him to build a
'death ray' machine which he plans to use to control the world. His
historical nemesis, Denis Nayland-Smith of Interpol / Scotland Yard,
has to figure out a way of stopping him before it's too late.

An alien
ship contacts Earth notifying of a potential visit, but crash lands
on Mars. Earth sends a rescue ship which discovers one surviving greenish
female alien, Velena. After the death of a crewman they discover that
the alien lives on blood and feed her on medical supplies.

During a fight after the death of a second crew member, the alien is
accidentally killed. She is found to have left behind a lot of pulsating
red eggs which, on their return, are happily carted away by scientists
despite the protests of the crew.

The weird
Dr. Zimmer invents a machine which injects electric needles into people's
brains making them subject to mind control. When he dies, his daughter
takes over his experiments, turning nightclub dancer Miss Muerte into
a killing machine which she uses to extract revenge on the scientists
who ridiculed her father's ideas.

One Million
Years B.C.Owes
a lot to 'One Million B.C.' (1940) which starred Victor MatureHammerDon Chaffey

A prehistoric
man is banished from his tribe, the rock people, for challenging the
leadership. Through various trials and tribulations he arrives at the
sea shore where he discovers the shell people and falls in love with
one of the girls after saving them from a giant rubber dinosaur. Man
and his mate head off into the sunset together. The real stars of the
film are the chamois bikinis sported by Miss Welch and her pals. See
Hammer Films

Chilling
film about the people's resistance to a futuristic fascist 'big brother'
government who want to destroy all books and reading matter. The story
centres around a fireman whose job it is to burn the books.

Kiss The
Girls And Make Them DieDino
de LaurentiisHenry Levin and Dino Maiuri

Michael Connors,
Dorothy Provine, Raf Vallone, Terry-Thomas

A millionaire
businessman has plans to sterilise all the world's males and re-stock
the planet using his own mistresses whom he keeps in suspended animation.

Alien creatures
from the Hydra Constellation are forced to land on the island of Sardinia.
They capture Earth people including a scientist and his daughter (complete
with fishnet bodysuit) to help them repair their craft and kidnap them
after getting their faulty engine fixed.

International
Rescue are called upon to provide security for the second Zero-X manned
space exploration mission after the first one was sabotaged. It accomplishes
its mission but encounters problems during its return - another job
for the Tracy boys. Cliff Richard (Jr.) and The Shadows appear in puppet
form.
Also see Gerry Anderson Productions

A cyborg
is sent back from a future time which is ruled through a radio telepathy
device and where free thought is illegal. Back in the past, our present,
he tries to persuade the inventor of the device to abandon his experiments.
Two similar beings are sent back by the future government to try and
stop him. Sort of an early 'Terminator'.

A special
submarine, 'The Blood Vessel', is miniaturised and injected into the
bloodstream of a famous scientist to try and clear an inoperable blood
clot in his brain. They have a limited time to do this before the craft
returns to its normal size and there is a traitor in their midst! Miss
Welch's best assets are unaffected by the experience I'm glad to say.

Dimension
5(Dimension Four)United
Pictures CorporationFranklin Adreon

Jeffrey Hunter,
France Nuyen, Harold Sakata, Donald Woods

A 'Eurospy'
Bond-style film featuring agents who use time travel devices on their
belts to move three weeks into the future. They plan to intercept a
shipment of materials in order to foil a sinister Chinese plot to build
an H-bomb with which to destroy Los Angeles.You
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Puns fly
in all directions as The Riddler, The Joker, The Penguin and Catwoman
team up to try and finally outwit the dynamic duo. Their plan is to
hold the world to ransom after dehydrating the members of the United
Nations. See Batman pages

In The
Year 2889From a short story of the same title by Jules
VerneAzalea
PicturesLarry Buchanan

Da daa daa
daa, deep in the heart of Texas - well in the swamps actually, a mad
scientist is carrying out experiments on local inhabitants to discover
the secrets of their evolution. When a group of men surveying for oil
come across his secret laboratory he decides to try the experiment in
reverse and devolves one of them into a primeval swamp creature. You
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The second
Dr. Who film, less camp than the first and with more of the series 'feel'.
The Tardis arrives back in London in the year 2150 to find that the
Daleks have landed and enslaved the population. The Doctor and his companions
have to come up with a plan to stop the Daleks from exploding a bomb
deep underground which would destroy the world.
Also see Dr Who pages

Earth could
do with a few more too, if they're all anything like Yvonne. The Martians
have an evil plot to nick all the good-looking ones we have to try and
increase the failing Martian birthrate. You
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